For other Latter-day Saint wards in Michigan, Sunday was traumatic, too: ‘A huge violation’

GRAND BLANC, Mich. — As a man shot at Latter-day Saints here Sunday, friends and fellow church members in other congregations of the Grand Blanc Stake were in the middle of routine church meetings.

The children of the Flint Ward, 12 miles to the north, were singing and speaking at their annual Primary program during sacrament meeting.

Thirty-two miles southeast of Grand Blanc in Rochester Hills, the Rochester Ward was holding its sacrament meeting, and the ward council of the Lake Orion Ward was discussing plans for this year’s Christmas activity.

The mind-bending minutes that followed were shocking and left a trail of trauma. This story is based on interviews with many church members.

News traveled north a bit faster because the Flint and Grand Blanc wards are inextricably bound in in